| Title |
Textile traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes : an anthology / edited by Margot Blum Schevil, Janet Catherine Berlo, Edward B. Dwyer. |
| Edition |
First University of Texas Press edition. |
| OCLC |
34243435 |
| ISBN |
0292777140 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780292777149 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Publisher |
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1996. |
| Description |
xxi, 503 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Indian textile fabrics -- Mexico.
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Indian textile fabrics -- Guatemala.
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Indian textile fabrics -- Andes Region.
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Indians of Mexico -- Clothing.
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Indians of Central America -- Clothing -- Guatemala.
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Indians of South America -- Clothing -- Andes Region.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Review |
"Chapters provide detailed information on manufacturing (spinning, weaving, dyeing, decorating); communicative significance (ethnicity, identity, tradition, rank, geographic origin); and marketing and commercialization among contemporary groups of indigenous descent"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ |
| Contents |
The communicative power of cloth and its creation / Margot Blum Schevill -- Spinning and weaving as female gender identity in post-classic Mexico / Sharisse D. McCafferty and Geoffrey G. McCafferty -- Communicative imagery in Guatemalan Indian dress / Cherri M. Pancake -- A line at a time: innovative patterning in the Isthmus of (Isthmian) Mexico / Pamela Scheinman -- Dress and civil-religious hierarchy in Solola, Guatemala / Guisela Mayen -- Dress and the human landscape in Guatemala: the case of Tecpan, Guatemala / Carol Hendrickson -- Woman's costume as a code in Comalapa, Guatemala / Linda Asturias de Barrios -- We are sons of Atahualpa and we will win: traditional dress in Otavalo and Saraguro, Ecuador / Lynn A. Meisch -- Regional dress of the Colca Valley, Peru: a dynamic tradition / Blenda Femenias -- Nature versus culture: the image of the uncivilized wild-man in textiles from the Department of Cuzco, Peru / Lee Anne Wilson -- Clothes and identity in the Central Andes: Province of Abancay, Peru / Raquel Ackerman -- Ethnic dress and Calcha festivals, Bolivia / Mary Ann Medlin -- Dual-lease weaving: an Andean loom technology / Ed Franquemont -- Resist dyeing in Mexico: comments on its history, significance, and prevalence / Virginia Davis -- The Ikat shawl traditions of northern Peru and southern Ecuador / Laura Martin Miller -- The dyes used in Guatemalan textiles: a diachronic approach / Robert S. Carlsen and David A. Wenger -- Export markets and their effects on indigenous craft production: the case of the weavers of Tcotitlan del Valle, Mexico / Lynn Stephen -- The marketing of Maya textiles in highland Chiapas, Mexico / Walter F. Morris, Jr. -- Beyond Bricolage: women and aesthetic strategies in Latin American textiles / Janet Catherine Berlo. |
| General note |
Originally published: New York : Garland, 1991. |
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